Monument record 12272 - ST KILDA VILLAGE

NF19NW 62 1008 9925

NF 1008 9925 An ovoid mound, c 20 x 10m across, underlies the long (westernmost) consumption dyke which is built along a 19th-century croft boundary in the Village Bay settlement. The dyke content of fire-cracked beach pebbles, mostly of dolerite, rises noticeably as it passes over the mound and then falls away further S. The low but persistent occurrence of fire-cracked pebbles within the 1830s head dyke suggests that other burnt mounds, now destroyed, may have formerly been present.
Sponsor:
University of Wales Lampeter - Dept of Archaeology.
A Fleming 2002
REPORT DATE: 28/05/2003

Council for Scottish Archaeology, 2002, Discovery and Excavation in Scotland (Bibliographic reference). SWE41091.